So I'm about half way through watching that "Musicians and the Atari ST" and have to say that it makes me both sad and happy at the same time. On the one hand happy that clearly the ST had such a great influence on music and apparently sound effects industry. But sad considering Atari sat on it and didn't improve their hardware/software fast enough to stay relevant. Considering at around that time it was quickly becoming that you'd use the ST for Music, Amiga for Video effects, and Macs for DTP/Art (though I guess that last one could be argued that the ST had some very excellent DTP packages as well).

Clearly a lot of musicians and effects studios had gotten over the 'Atari is for gaming' mentality.

I always find pictures like this funny. What sort of absurd setup is that? Even in a video studio, I doubt you'd have a CCTV security camera just sitting there on the video decks! And we all know that video people have no clue about sound anyway, just look at how bad the situation is on TV programmes with inaudible dialogue and too-loud SFX/music!

Got to love those orange headphones, total 80s right there. So many fond memories of that orange foam crumbling and getting in my ears.

well they thought people needed calculators on their watches , so I guess these folk believed you might want to sing along to the security camera...but is that a tv /moniter ,displaying a high resolution Cubase ???? hows that possible?

charles wrote:is that a tv /moniter ,displaying a high resolution Cubase ???? hows that possible?

I'm guessing it's either a third-party high-res monitor, or they faked the screenshot. I think it might be fake, it does look quite like a TV or colour monitor. A colour monitor would make sense in a video studio, perhaps they edited it after Cubase came out.

If they did edit it, I wonder on what platform? Photoshop on Mac? I don't think Photoshop was really a thing before 1990. There was also the Quantel Paintbox for the very rich.

I heard that placing the tv monitor face down on top of vhs cassettes does wonders for blurred images and faint colors..even having it that close to other magnetic heads can open a world of unknown possibilities....lol

charles wrote:well they thought people needed calculators on their watches

Yeah I totaly needed a calculator on my watch, in fact I am still rocking a Casio Databank today. What I didn't need was that Casio DJ watch with the tap tempo function because with a calculator watch you can work out the BPM from the measure you timed with the stopwatch as well as convert that time into samples and work out time stretching percentages and so on....of course I would still recommend having both a decent stopwatch and calculator in the studio but it is quite handy having both right there on your wrist.

Good spot, Dr. Octagon aka Kool Keith from late 80s and 90s Hip Hop group called Ultramagnetic MC's. Have this on vinyl, I like the quirkiness of Blue Flowers, featured Q-Bert who was one of the DJ's on the album. It's a hard one to spot, but the function keys makes it look more like an Amiga to me, but then my eyesight is ever getting worse.